Great Comet medley performance - Tonys 2017
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- Josh Groban, Denée Benton, Lucas Steele and the cast of "Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812" perform at the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 11, 2017 in New York City. The medley included renditions of "Dust and Ashes" and "The Abduction" among other songs.
Touted by presenter Keegan-Michael Key as "rock, pop, soul, folk, electronic dance music and classic Broadway," the show is based on a section of Leo Tolstoy's Russian novel War and Peace.
Natasha,Pierre and The Great Robbery of 2017
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Why?
@@ipanemagirl8375it didn't win the Tony's 2017 :((
Very much so. I’m pretty sure they could hear me yelling in disgust all the way from over in Australia
Yo if your show gets young people in War and Peace you deserve best show.
local young person here, BRO I WAS ENTHRALLED
Literally this show has me reading war and peace (idk how young is “young people” and not target demographic for the book lol)
had me reading war and peace between my classes in 9th grade fr
*fellow young person here
I am literally going to read war and peace this year because this musical got me so INVESTED IN THE STORY. Which I think is pretty amazing. Without great comet, I would have spent my whole life without giving war and peace a second thought.
Correction: If your show gets young people in important discussions and actions dealing with mental health and suicide, you deserve best show.
is it bad that I'm still salty about something that was over a year ago? this show deserved so much better smh
No it's not, this show was robbed of its Tonys and its run got cut short
Same here! I love DEH but how in the world did show only get 2 awards? It should've AT LEAST won Best Original Score in my opinion.
Great Comet has such GREAT orchestration. Still bitter about DEH beating it :(
no it’s not lmao
I'll be salty until they come back and win
i think it’s time to revive it
alex time low same or time for a national tour
Tea
You know, since Carousel is ending it would be a good time to bring it back
It's been long enough. If they can bring Les Mis back every other year they can do the same for the other musical based off a ridiculously long foreign classic
It’s been time to revive it the day it closed
Is no one gonna talk about how Stephen Colbert has absolutely no idea what is happening?
he looks flustered & honored
@@alexs.3383: He's got Amber Gray and Grace McLean on his lap. What do you expect?
Dear Evan Hansen isn't a bad show, but compared to this..?!? Gosh I get chills every time I watch this performance. There's just so much life in that stage. Even from behind our screens, I feel like you can feel the happiness and energy in that room. The music, staging, actors, and everything else about this show was incredible. It's so sad that it ended so early. Hoping the revival and/or national tour comes soon!! :D
Dear Evan Hansen won because it so intimately and accurately captured the human heart and its day-to-day personal struggles.
There’s never been anything that made me feel so seen and heard, as it did for so many others all over the world.
As the show itself says: You Will Be Found!
Where was the message that people took from Great Comet? Hmm??
There’s a thousand pieces like Great Comet that present characters and their loves in this very elaborate and melodramatic way.
You’d be lucky to find something that matches Dear Evan Hansen.
@@samosullivan1744 dear Evan Hansen won because it was more popular, because the songs are very poppy, relatable and digestible. The story is not a heartfelt one, but rather deceitful. It is about a kid that lies about being the best friend of someone who committed suicide, then gets everything he ever wanted, an the consequences of what he did are not even that harsh. I get that Evan may be relatable but the “you will be found” thing is honestly horrible in context, the suicide of Connor was used as a device to move the story forward and it is exploited because everything evan does is seen as he is a victim. Since the musical doesn’t really treat Alana and Jared seriously enough as fully fleshed out characters we don’t get to see how much of a jerk Evan is. We are forced to relate more with Evan since he is the protagonist, but it is actually a twisted tale that screams, oh poor thing, he’s got social anxiety and depression, and on top of that he is lonely, we should feel bad for him even if he destroys a family and betrays the trust of other people who don’t matter because they aren’t poor Evan who has a mental illness .
I don’t think deh should be praised with best musical because it does not have an honest story nor I think it deserves to win a tony for best orchestrations, they are minimalistic, they are intimate and fit the mood, but really? Great comet was better in that category.
@@lorenasiu3113 It is an honest story, because it portrays modern-day people with all their flaws.
Besides, the whole story leads up to the characters revealing the truths about themselves they don’t want to admit (Evan’s suicide attempt, for example), so I honestly don’t see how you can’t call it an honest story!
@@samosullivan1744 I love Dear Evan Hansen. It's one of my favorite musicals. But I have to agree that this one is better. To address your final point first: you say there's no piece that matches Evan Hansen? There absolutely is. Next to normal. It had the same director and the two shows are fairly easy to group together- they both portray a character's struggle with mental health, a family's struggle with loss, and they have some sort of hallucination-ghost person (Gabe in n2n and Connor in deh). But next to normal is easily better from an objective standpoint and, honestly, an emotional one. Everything means something. Every color (be it referenced in lighting, costumes, or even lyrics), every phrase, every note, everything. Every character is so well developed. Diana's struggle with mental health is real. Next to normal is probably the most effective musical I've ever seen, though I do think great comet is up there as well, I just haven't had as much time to analyze it (I'm not sure it'll top n2n for me, but it's definitely very strong). The reason I say it's better from an emotional standpoint is that it lacks the problematic parts of deh that many people have pointed out. Evan is a liar, and he's not a good person. I don't believe that every protagonist has to be good, or that everyone who acts poorly has to be punished. That's not how it is in real life, and this is more real. But if you want to have your fanbase be able to self insert them into your main character, he should probably not base all of the removal of his struggles on the lies that he tells a grieving family. And then there's the thing pointed out by many people struggling with Evan's issues- they're not realistic to what it's actually like to have social anxiety. Even ignoring the circumstances under which you will be found is performed, it's most certainly problematic.
Great comet may not have an underlying message, but it also doesn't have to to be a great or even original musical. What message does cats have? And yet, that held the title of longest running musical for years before phantom topped it (and what's the message of phantom? I dare you to find one that you can truly convince me is the message, there are plenty of great things that you can take away from it, but I don't think any of them are the overall purpose of the show, and I'm *quite* familiar with it. It's maybe not the biggest masterpiece ever, but it is generally well written. Not every great show needs a takeaway to be great.)
And yes, of course there are lots of musicals similar to great comet. That's the beauty of inspiration. But I dare you to find one that does quite what great comet does with its staging and its audience. By far, the music in this show is better than deh- deh doesn't have bad music, and I quite like the way words fail is done (though I'd argue that's not exactly the only show that's done a song that way, see flowers from hadestown, also uses the non repetitive style to drive in how defeated they feel). But the music in this show is incredible. It's interesting. Dear Evan Hansen uses a more basic pop style, and while that isn't bad and it's also not like great comet reinvented the musical theater style, it's not nearly as unpredictable or unique. And it's well written. The little things that are included. And some of that can be attributed to the source material, I'm sure, but it also takes a great writer to adapt something effectively and include those details without it feeling forced. For example, Natasha saying 'I love him. I know him' about Andrey and 'I love him. I love him' about Anatole. It's a stark difference in their relationships. She knows Andrey. It's safe. She doesn't know Anatole, but she loves him. It's a blink and you miss it difference, but it drives in character. Or the similarities between Anatole and Helene being driven in by how they try to convince Natasha to come to the ball. They use the same phrase- you will be the prettiest there. It's those little things that make a musical truly amazing. I dare you to find more than a few in deh. I've noticed these, and I'm pretty sure I've seen more, in the week that I've been listening to great comet.
And again, man, the staging! It's just incredible. I'm planning to be a director someday, and I'd kill to get to block something on a stage like that. The opportunities for audience interaction- and the way that they use them- and the three-dimensionality of it? It's exceptional! And it's used so well, too. The audience interaction is very well placed, used to drive in tension, give character to the show and to the characters themselves, it lets the people watching connect to it.
Obviously I can't name every example of all of these things cause this is long enough as it is but much as I do love and enjoy deh, this show is just better. Imagine sitting in that theater while it's playing. As neat as it would be to see deh live, there's no way it could compare to great comet. Even if you're not in the middle of the stage or on the far sides, even watching from the normal seats, the way it's built makes it all so much more intimate. Which also allows you to connect to the story.
@@juliasings6131 Alright, challenge accepted!
The message of Cats is about the dangers of tribalism (a very important one for these divided times) as the Jellicles learn to accept Grizabella back into their tribe.
There are multiple messages in Phantom but I’d say the most recurrent one is to not hide yourself.
We see it in Christine’s journey from nervous, led-by-the-nose chorus girl to Opera Star who takes matters into her own hands and in her endeavours to take off the Phantom’s mask. And by the end, he learns her message deciding to leave his underground hideout leaving his mask behind.
“It’s over now, the music of the night” - He’s moving out of the dark and into the daylight.
And at the very end, when Meg holds his mask up, it’s like she’s holding it out to the audience as if to say: What do we do now? Do we cover ourselves up out of fear of being shunned by the world or conceal our true loves for another? You’ve seen this story, what about yours?
-rOBBED
-THIS ENTIRE CAST DESERVED THE WORLD
-lucas was robbed, just like this show
-BALAGA SERENADING BRANDON URANOWITZ WOW I'M CRYING
-wow i love this show
-audience inclusion?????? sign me tf up
-can you tell it's my favorite musical?
sophieloafy89 TEA
Lucas Steele? More like Lucas Stolen
OUR DARLING BELOVED SHOW WAS ABSOLUTELY ROBBEDDDD YOURE RIGHT
Josh Groban is the most disrespected performer on Broadway
With the DEH movie flopping, allow me to say
"I'm not saying she deserved it, but I'm saying God's timing is always riiiiiight"
the fact that they pull dave up onstage with them makes me tear up a little to this day
the fact that this clip ends with best orchestrations going to DEH... oof.
I think of all the awards that Great Comet lost to DEH, that's the one that makes me go absolutely feral
I don't know how the Tonys' politics work exactly, but I really feel like they awarded the name more than the work. If Lac hadn't arranged for Hamilton, or if the DEH arranger had been anyone else, I doubt they would've considered DEH Best Orchestration material.
@@badlucksparrow40 COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF
I shouldn't be as offended as I am that this show was treated so wrong. My favourite musical deserved so much better and this performance perfectly shows why.
it need to be on tour
And the fact that best orchestrations and best score went to DEH... there's like 3 chords in that whole show. How is that better music than something like comet? Like I enjoy the music of DEH, but there is no doubting that comets music is superior to everything on that year. The Tony committee is so freakin corrupt. We saw that with Finding Neverland not getting a single nom just because some of its salty former creative team was on the tony committee that year and wanted to be petty. Like, come on. Why have an award show for the most outstanding work when the most outstanding shows don't get awards? Still watch it every year though😂
Agreed about DEH, but honestly I think Finding Neverland was a pretty weak show that wouldn't have gotten nominated anyway.
AGREE 100% ABOUT THE ORCHESTRATION
@@evah1928 yes I totally second that
Some girl I know who's a musical theatre major claimed the transition between the electropop and folk music in Great Comet was "jarring."
IBut that's what makes the musical SO AMAZING! It's unconventional! It sounds different from EVERY OTHER SHOW on Broadway. It ropes you into the world and tells a story using music that infiltrates your soul and makes it unforgettable
@@rachelf5466 Oh my gosh I can not agree more.
how can you NOT throw a million tony's at them after watching this performance? absolutely spectacular. i'm still so salty that it ended so soon.
* comet was robbed
* lucas should have STEELED the tony
* i’m still salty about it closing and its been 364 days
I'm still salty about its closing and it's been 365 days :(
@@valakmountain Same
Same
It’s most likely opening in west end in 2019 though
@@coconut9389 Oh, did it??
Can we appreciate the audience on stage who were all hyped up instead of the usual confusion from whoever just witnessed the abduction for the first time
Okay no shade to Dear Evan Hansen, I understand that it is a very important musical to a lot of people, and that it is more appealing in a conventional modern stand point, but it breaks my heart NP&TCO1812 didn’t win, because I feel like it brought a lot more to the table and honestly, was simply better than DEH.
this is the first time i have ever seen the show abbreviated in that way
Alex S. Lol okay, I also call it Npatco1812 and the great comet, but I see plenty of people do it. also I would imagine any of this is more initalism than it is abbreviation but yeah
you're right & I am surprised I haven't seen anyone else do it before considering the amount of time i spend browsing the broadway corner of the internet
They went with safe and dumbed down rather than the show that was revolutionary in many respects.
@@AnneBarschall Natasha and Pierre is unique, but i dont know if i would call it revolutionary exactly. Immersive theatre has existed in shows around the world, and even off Broadway with pieces like Sleep No More, long before Natasha and Pierre came around. NandP is really just the first example of something like this on Broadway. Im not saying its bad or anything by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd hesitate to call it revolutionary.
cant believe this performance where i could literally feel the liveliness through my screen lost to some dude in a cast singing about windows
Not any dude in a cast singing about windows.
A gargantuan piece of shit in a cast singing about windows
it’s been four years and this musical still has an iron grip on my soul. I come back to this clip and it makes me so emotional every damn time when I tell you watching this on tv as a kid rearranged my brain chemistry I am Not lying this show was robbed so BAD ,,,
me too
An iron grip on my soul as well.
The most I can hope for is that it becomes popular, a tour and a broadway revival.
@@coffelita I doubt it'd tour considering the complexity of the staging, but I'd so love there to be a revival
@@themandarin9493 Saaame
The Tony for Best Musical almost always goes to the safest show, rather than the greatest show.
*REVIVE THE GREAT COMET*
Everything about this performance was so iconic like?? The cast? Iconic? The audience being confused but loving it? Iconic. Josh Groban bringing Dave Malloy to the stage? Iconic. This musical deserved so much better
Groban is just as phenomenal live as he is recorded I'm QUAKING
Dust and Ashes rivals songs like Defying Gravity. The Great Comet Of 1812 should have made it big like Hamilton. There is no content there is no nothing for this amazing musical.
Stacey Varos Isn’t it? Too bad people could relate more to the American Revolution and hip-hop rap than War & Peace set in half-folkish electropopera. It really should have gotten as popular and been as long-lasting.
You’ll find many gems off-Broadway, though. Try Hadestown for a start.
@@laurelcrown9293 Hadestown is wonderful. It's coming to Broadway in 2019!
Madeline Adair It is??????? Oh my god!!! Now I’m so ready for both Hadestown to hit Broadway and Dave Malloy’s up-and-coming four-hour off-Broadway Moby Dick musical.
And did you hear? Denee Benton is gonna join Hamilton as Eliza!! Now three of the most known Natasha actors (Pippa, Shoba) have also gotten Eliza roles!!
Seeing Brandon Uranowitz and Balaga together was something I didn’t know I needed until now
Best crossover.
Zoe Daisy when?
3:07
Damn now I’m even more sad about that fact that both this AND Falsettos were robbed that year
i love how its
“lucas steele
josh groban”
and the balaga is simply *balaga*
I knew nothing about GC when I watched the Tony’s, but when I saw this performance I thought for sure it was going to win Best Musical. I loved DEH but I didn’t think there was any way it could compete with GC. I was absolutely fucking baffled when DEH won.
I was sure that DEH would win best musical just because of how popular it became, and when it won I was ok with that. But when it won best score and composition over Comet I was pissed. DEH has like three or four chords and boring instrumentals. Comet has such a new and interesting set of chords and instruments it's insane. Sadly there'll never be another musical like Comet due to the treatment of the show
the abduction literally has chaotic energy and i love it
I will never stop being pissed off that this show didn't win best orchestrations or best original score. Like giving those awards to Dear Evan Hansen is sick and twisted. Dave Malloy was ROBBED. The Great Comet was nominated for 12 Tonys and only got 2, they gave this performance and came away with just 2 from 12. If I try and comprehend how that was the case I lose brain cells. So sad I'll never see this show live.
It''s cos DEH was super over-hyped and this show sadly didn't receive anywhere near the widespread attention it deserved, plus shows with actual orchestras rather than bands these days tend to get overlooked, in spite of the fact that it's MUCH harder to properly orchestrate than it is to write for a 5 or 6 piece band. Don't get me wrong, DEH has some fab music, but it's all very "pop" and panders to a wider demographic, whereas the Great Comet score and songs are far better crafted and display a great deal more intelligence, elegance and subtlety of composition than the overtly heartstring-tugging, ostentatiously uplifting nature of Pasek and Paul's music.
This show just made its Canadian premier in Toronto. I was luckily enough to just recently see it. It is one of the most underrated and unforgettable musical productions I have ever seen. It’s one of my new musical obsessions. I will never forgive the Tony’s knowing that this lost to Dear, Evan Hanson.
Omg seriously!!! Holy shit that sounds so exciting. Had no clue they were opening again. Do you think they’ll do the same in America?
I just saw it this week! God I was reminded how snubbed this musical was. Also they just got moved to mirvish next summer! Exciting stuff
It is a DESGRACE to the world that Lucas Steele didn't win the tony for Anatole (yes I'm still salty)
Everyone is still salty
Chloe Eagan Except bland, unseasoned DEH lol
Steph Piano Deh didn’t even win the best featured actor award
STAY SALTY
*How the fuck did this not win Best Musical*
This is such an iconic performance they deserved the Tony for this alone!
Anatole rocking out on the violin is everything
Also great comet was robbed of the tonies it deserved
Josh Groban singing "Всего хорошего, на посошок, поехали" is my new aesthetic
I will forever be salty that this show only one 2 Tony’s! What an absolutely stunning show that deserved to be on Broadway for so much longer! I wish I could have seen this show. ❤️
It was freaking robbed, I'm still angry, Jesus help me.
All I hope is that The Great Comet will come back one day with the most successful revival in the history of Broadway!
Cobert looks thrilled and flustered to have both amber and grace there and honestly SAME DUDE
I've never found myself NOT smiling while watching these recordings. I'm so sad that I got into the Great Comet a month before it's closing & Really hope they bring it back because God the happiness that their performances transmit, even through a screen, is absolutely show-stopping.
I really sad I got into just a months ago 😭😭
revival needs to happen bro
2:05 Lucas knows how to properly swoosh his coat
the amount of energy in this preformance is insane
I feel bad because there are so many great musicals and when one wins you feel like the rest were robbed. I love Dear Evan Hansen but I also love The Great Comet and I feel like they should bring it back :))
I agree, it's hard to choose, but great comet was honestly superior to deh in so many ways. They should have at least have great comet best orchestration or score...
You're👏user👏name👏is👏eve👏ry👏thing👏
Watching this for the umpteenth time, I've realized you can't tell where the ensemble stops and the audience begins. This show is what theatre is all about.
Remember when this aired and it was the best thing to happen at the tonys that year and, for a brief shining moment, we were all happy? :’)
Dear Evan Hansen is *quacking.*
(Jk, jk, DEH is cool)
I didn't know how much I needed to see Marya and Hélène make out in HD until now, holy cricket.
I've been waiting for this version to be uploaded for way too long, so thank you very much!
quacking
Same! Cuz CBS had it uploaded last year but they took it down after like 2 months
I honestly think Great Comet was underrated it’s truly spectacular. The problem was that it wasn’t hyped up like Dear Evan Hansen and the others and I think it’s box office suffered after Josh Groban’s departure.
i have revisited this performance at least 3 times this week. i havent thought about dear evan hansen in at least 7 months up until im writing this. this show was robbed so fckin badly
same here, you said it exactly right.
and can i just say, i absolutely love your profile pic of chuu? you seem to have great taste in music lmao
this musical will always have such an impact on me. it deserved so much better and deserved much more praise
I was rooting for DEH and come from away and then I saw this performance and I got pissed about the awards DEH won Dx gah I wish I could still see this show 😭
was that marya and helene making out?
Yes
Yes
Yes, yes it was.
Yes :)
Tea👏
This performance is one of my favorite clips of all time of musical theater because of the sheer joy you can see on the performers’ faces. They are so happy to be performing
#justiceforgreatcomet Lets make this trending everyboby
After loving this musical for years this is the first time I realized anatole literally says live laugh love
I loved how, halfway through, Josh pulled Dave onto the stage to join them
Great Comet deserved better. I'm still devastated that it's just gone.
the hug josh gives dave
seeing this pop up on my youtube feed totally took me back to when I was excitedly sitting on my parents bed watching the tonys for hamilton, but completely falling in love with this show instead. its so damn good :'). i wish i could have seen this show in person though
I have never seen this beautiful show, but I have been listening to the album for well over a year. Like everybody says, it deserves a lot more credit. This show is tied with Rent as my favorite and best Broadway show ever. I even made my senior quote a couple of lines from "Pierre". Also, this is one of the best and most revolutionary shows of the past few years, and of all time. (A lot better than, Hamilton, among others, even though I am still a big fan).
Also, thanks for uploading this!
which lines did you use?
@@alexs.3383 "There's a sickness in the world, and everyone knows". I used it because it heavily relates to the way the world is today, that is part of what makes this show great.
love that & agree
What I would give to see this show on Broadway just once
I got to see this as my first ever broadway show and it was INCREDIBLE they were robbed at the Tony's 😢
utterly, utterly, UTTERLY robbed. love this show
It is crazy how they didnt get the tony, they blew dear evan Hansen out of the park
Its been years and I'm still not over this
I've seen over 200 musicals and plays in my life and this is the most entertaining and interactive show I've even seen in my life
3:49 I will never not be concerned for this man’s pants
Saw the DEH movie trailer and I just need to rewatch this. Great Comet deserves the world.
Denee's smile is so infectious ⛦◜▿◝
I’m crying
This is a theatrical masterpiece
Probably the Tony performance that has most sold me on seeing the show live. I really wish I was able to visit NYC during the year it was open T_T
it's been four years and I'm still salty
I’d give anything and everything for great comet to return. To go to broadway and west end. To tour. They were so robbed at the Tony’s. Everything about this musical was so creative, new and fresh to musicals. The staging, cast, audience inclusion and the songs. I never got to see the show but I one hundred percent will do anything for tickets if it returned to the stage❤️💛
thank you for posting!!!! never forget the great robbery of the great comet of 2017
Literal chills when watching this
hell yeah that's how you do an introduction speech
This was one of the best shows I have ever seen and am very sad of it being gone ..
TGC DESERVED BETTER AND THATS THE TEA
GOD BLESS YOUUUUUUUUU
More than a year ago and I'm still salty
EVen at the Tony's, the audience claps off beat... FIGURES
*THEY WERNT ON BROADWAY FOR EVEN A YEAR WHO WANTS TO JOIN MY RIOT FOR A REVIVAL* (idc about my spelling I just woke up)
I miss this show more than I can put into words
Marvelous great show and Josh groban at his best.
sophie lee you are doing the lords work
josh groban dancing and hugging with dave malloy 😢 awww
I'll never get over how dirty this show was done. Never.
I MISS THIS SHOW SO DAMN MUCH
wow how did this not win best choreography ??????
When they announced the nominees for Choreography I was really hoping this or Bandstand would win. As much as I’m sad this didn’t win I’m so happy about Bandstand winning because that story was so important to me as a granddaughter of World War II veterans. I wish it was a tie between Great Comet and Bandstand like way back when for Best Musical.
Will i ever get over this robbery??? Probably not.
Oh god I relate
None of us will recover
@@gabbyditaranto9801 hi gabbytales
Balaga just vibin as always :)
I've seen two different local productions of Great Comet and even from that I can honestly say that Balaga/The Abduction is the best experience I've ever had in a theater audience. If it had been close to me I would have gone broke seeing it every week.
This show is so much better than Dear Evan Hansen. It deserved to win more Tonys, and easily deserved Best Musical. It also should have ran longer.
you've done the lord's work by posting this here, thank you and bless your soul
Tag yourself, I'm the guy running with ribbons.
god this is so beautiful ohfg
I only knew of this musical since January 2018 but this is giving me so much nostalgia 😭😭
This performance shook me to my core. I will remember seeing it for the first time for forever
*sheds tear* bless you for posting this
Thank you so much!!! I LOVE YOU!
Still the best performance by FAR
why do all the people in the audience look so uncomfortable
Halseam i’d be moderately uncomfortable if I had no context for the dance
Incredible performance